There's a really easy way to perfectly dress your to-go salad

Take-out salads typically come with dressing on the side, which means you're faced with the task of mixing in the dressing yourself, leaving you with bone-dry lettuce below and sopping wet lettuce on top.

But I have a salad dressing hack, honed by years of laziness and ordering take-out salads, that makes it easy to get perfectly mixed and coated lettuce every single time from a to-go container.

Since my coworkers were impressed with my tip, I decided to share it with Tech Insider readers, too.

Using your fork, make room on the side for the dressing to reach the bottom. You'll pour the dressing into this gap.

Pour the dressing down towards the bottom of the container on all four sides of your packaging. Try to use equal amounts of dressing as you go.

If you have extra dressing, drizzle it on top.

Place the top back on the container and turn your salad upside down and shake every which way — up, down, sideways, and back and forth. Stop when you see that the dressing that's coating the bottom has run down towards the lid.